Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

When you trust people to help you, they often do.

Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.

We're all lost. The best chance we got is to wander this life with the people who matter.

Who needs the sun, when the rain is so full of life?

You go into flow when your highest strengths are deployed to meet the highest challenges that come your way.

In the end, what really matters? Only kindness. Only making somebody a little happier for your presence.

Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.

Look, we ought to do this for our kids... We ought to have a high school so that every kid who grows up here - they're all our kids - gets a good high school education.

I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.